Spring 2027

Topics in Chinese Literature

A literary or cultural study of a particular theme, work, period, or genre in Chinese literature, covering topics like Confucian Analects or Traditional Chinese Drama.

offering recorded2–3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Rania Huntington3.9/5

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.81 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=96 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.89 GPA, 95.6% A/AB (n=339 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.81 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=105 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explicate the content and cultural context of literary and historical texts related to the special topic across different historical epochs.

  • Both orally and in writing, express one's own interpretation of and reaction to literary texts, and listen to and engage with the interpretations and reactions of others.

  • Conduct library and internet-based research on topics of interest, collecting and selecting relevant information.

  • Synthesize and critically evaluate primary and secondary sources.

  • Explicate the significance of the topic in a historical, comparative, and global context.

  • Explicate the major theories, research methods, and approaches to inquiry in scholarship on traditional Chinese literature.

  • Demonstrate the ability to articulate and communicate knowledge of the subject to a variety of audiences.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing

  • Sophomore standing
ASIAN 371

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Raw average: 4.04/5 from 25 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 3.87 GPA, 95.6% A/AB (n=91 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.81 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=96 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.81 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=105 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

RANIA HUNTINGTON is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.81 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=96 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.89 GPA, 95.6% A/AB (n=339 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.81 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=105 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Specific works and genres such as Confucian Analects, The Dream of the Red Chamber, Journey to the West, and Traditional Chinese Drama.
  • Theories, research methods, and approaches to inquiry in scholarship on traditional Chinese literature.

Skills

  • Explicate content and cultural context of literary and historical texts.
  • Conduct library and internet-based research.
  • Synthesize and critically evaluate primary and secondary sources.
  • Read literary texts in the original Chinese language.

Grades

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1330 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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ASIAN 371 · Spring 2027

Topics in Chinese Literature

Recorded 2026-10-14
ASIAN 371 · Spring 2027

Three Kingdoms

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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